In recent times, a surge has been observed in mobile health, e-diagnosis and medication. Tata Consultancy Services recently observed in a latest study featuring 56 driving healthcare organizations that 86% of them have already embraced AI. According to the Global Observatory survey for eHealth conducted by World Health Organization, AI in the telemedicine field is directly contributing to innovations in areas including tele-radiology, tele-pathology, tele-dermatology, and tele-psychiatry.
How is AI Empowering Telemedicine?
Improved Diagnoses with AI
When remote examination/check-ups are combined with AI, a considerable progress can be seen with limited specialty labor. Artificial Intelligence can be utilized to reduce hospital queues and wait times and other regulatory pains. While this is currently limited to in-person visits, predictive analytics can help discover specialists quicker for telemedicine patients as well. As an example, AI provides the option to course inquiries to the specialist with the best filtered results for a patient’s symptoms rather than simply sending them to the first doctor available.
Clinicians would already be able to analyze, screen, and treat diabetic retinopathy remotely by means of telemedicine. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services recently reduced visits to specialty care professionals by more than 14,000 by implementing telemedicine screenings for diabetic retinopathy at its security net facilities.
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Remote Patient Monitoring
At present, the greatest use for telemedicine software is patient monitoring. A practical application of AI and telemedicine for monitoring and gathering data on a patient’s progress is the recent study on an Ankle Rehabilitation System with Feedback from a Smartphone Wireless Gyroscope Platform and Machine Learning Classification. AI and ML features add the capability to predict the amount of medication based on previous data and for real-time diagnosis and faster data collection.
The forthcoming times may see a decreased requirement for up close and personal interactions among patients and doctors but the realization of AI applications in telemedicine would highly depend on how rapidly the industry adopts an all-inclusive digital platform of service offerings to create a circle of trust and security with patients, doctor, nurses, radiologists, vendors and the other important participants in the ecosystem.
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Services in healthcare are all about people. With AI, trust and reliability may not be a problem; however, issues related to ethical applications, emotions, and security would continue to pull back applications in telemedicine.
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